Tyeps of Long Term Memory

Question 1

What are the three types of memory

Answer 1

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 2

What is episodic (life events)

Answer 2

An event of a group of events occurring as a larger sequence
This kind of memory links to personal experience
You may recall the context -what happened before/or after
May recall, the emotions you felt at that time

Question 3

What is semantic (knowledge)

Answer 3

Knowledge about the world in which we live in which is shared by everyone and is not specific to you as an individual (VAT20%)
Theses memories may relate to functions of objects,what behaviour is appropriate e.g.funeral or escalator etc or abstract concepts such as maths or language
-these usually is a gradual transition from an episodic to semantic memory where we forget the context in which we learnt the knowledge

Question 4

What is procedural (skills)

Answer 4

Remembering how to do something
These memories are typically acquired through repetition and practice
This memory is implicit in that we are less aware of them because they have become automatic e.g.riding a bike -they say you never forget
It is important that these memories are automatic so we can focus all our attention on other task while performing these everyday task

Question 5

Types of Long term memory evaluation (AO3)